Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen ranked eighth in Fortune’s 2017 World’s Greatest Leaders for her efforts to pursue economic reforms, bolster tourism from Southeast Asia and steer the nation’s diplomacy, the U.S.-based magazine said over the weekend.

Tsai appears in the list of 50 leaders from the fields of art, business, government and philanthropy alongside figures such as U.S. philanthropist Melinda Gates in fourth; Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos in fifth; U.S. Sen. John McCain in ninth; and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in 10th. Theo Epstein, president of baseball operations for U.S. MLB team the Chicago Cubs, tops the rankings followed by mainland Chinese entrepreneur Jack Ma and Pope Francis.

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